Motivational Quotes

Art

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

- Motherwell, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John